thebastion | Day 173 | The Beginning

Who: Tobias and open.
Open: Open
When: Day 173
Where: Near the entrance to the Skyway.
What: A bird arrives after the end of the world.
Format: Whatever works.
Warnings: Bird with PTSD. ~~It's a children's series!~~

It was early morning when Tobias wakes up. He stretched his wings, and opens his eyes, looking out at the field.

… There was no field.

Tobias stared at the space around him in confusion. Floating… in space? Was this something the Ellimist did? It would be just like him to wake him up in a weird kind of situation like this. … But if it was, there wasn't anything he could do. So he pushed off the tree and flapped, looking down at the rough path of earth nearby. He could see something, far off - it looked like some kind of small town.

He followed the path towards it, traveling quickly. The air was warm enough to give him some nice thermals, and he coasted between them until he got to the - town? It was too small to be a town. He landed on the grass near the entrance to the place, staring.

<Where am I?>

This was pretty clearly some kind of dream, so he didn't really bother keeping his thought-speak private. Anyone in the general area could hear a confused young male voice echo in their head.

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<You don't understand. I have a war to get back to.> And Rachel. Rachel. He has to get back to her. She can't be dead. He can't accept that.

"That war's not there anymore either."

<... Great. Just great. I don't - it should have been her. Not me.>

He cares about the others, but... Rachel. He can't just leave her. She can't leave him. It doesn't make sense. Nothing makes sense right now.

"I'm... not gonna tell you it's a good chance, but you might still find your friends."

He has a few of his own friends here, after all, and one of them didn't even come with him from Vatheon.

<If anyone can survive a huge dose of weirdness, it's them.> That was what their lives were for the past two years, after all.

"I've been weirder places than this. You get used to it."

"...you mean that's not normal where you're from?"

<... No.> What kind of Disney universe was this guy from?

All of them. The answer is all of them.

"Oh." He scratches his head. "There's a lot of different worlds, so... I just figured yours was like that."

<Yeah, no. Animals communicate with each other, but they don't speak human languages. And they're definitely not telepathic.> Sorry, Roxas. Most places don't work that way.

"So, you're a special bird then?"

...was he fighting in a bird war or a human war? Do birds have wars?

<Yeah. I used to be human.> The answer is neither.

"Oh." Roxas stops himself from adding 'me, too,' because that's an explanation he doesn't think he wants to get into right now. It would probably be pretty confusing for.. the bird, too.

"I guess- you can explain that one later, if you feel like it." It might be personal and all. "Anyway I'm Roxas."

Explanations can wait, yeah. He also has no clothes for his human morph. <I'm Tobias.>

He stretches his wings out fully, feathers ruffling. <It's kind of nice here, for being a chunk of rock hanging in space with no other supports.>

"It's not bad for the end of the world," Roxas agrees with a wry smile. "Most everyone here is pretty nice, too."

<That's good to hear. It'd kind of suck to be stuck with a bunch of jerks.>

"Nah. There's only a couple that I've met."

He pauses and then offers, "Do you want me to show you around?"

<Sure. Uh... hang on, let me just change... you probably don't want to look.>

Tobias flies over behind the onsen, and starts to morph. Fortunately, once his legs change and his wings melt into arms, it only really looks horrific before the fur sprouts. Once that's done, he wanders over to Roxas again.

<This'll be easier to follow you on the ground with. I'd turn human but I didn't pack clothes for the apocalypse.>

"Change--?" Roxas doesn't have time to finish the question before Tobias is already flying off.

He looks at him in astonishment when he returns. "You- can change into stuff?" Well, now he's just really confused about the 'used to be human' part, because it didn't sound like Tobias meant 'five minutes ago.'

Tobias nods a little and scratches his head.

<Whatever I can touch that has DNA, pretty much.>

"What's DNA?"

Does Roxas have whatever it is, too?

<It's basically... it's like a code that shows how to make you. Or at least your body. Before you're born your body reads the code and shapes you how it tells it to.>

"Oh..." He thinks for a moment. Well, if it's to do with the body, then he does have that, but most Nobodies change form at least a little bit from when they were human, so he's still not completely sure.

"Well- anyway, if you can turn about my size, I've- got clothes you can borrow."

<Really?> He should be about the same size... it's a little hard to tell. <I think I'm about your size. I'm pretty skinny.>

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